Rank Rear admiral Education Swarth College Name Anne Schuchat | Relations 3 brothers, 1 sister Spouse(s) 1 husband | |
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Battles/wars 2001 anthrax attacksSARS outbreak2009 flu pandemic Awards USPHS Meritorious Service Medal Outstanding Service Medal USPHS Commendation Medal USPHS Achievement Medal Outstanding Unit Citation USPHS Unit Commendation Bicentennial Unit Commendation Foreign Duty Service Award Crisis Response Service Award USPHS Regular Corps Ribbon Commissioned Officers Association Service/branch United States Public Health Service | ||
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Alexander questions dr anne schuchat of cdc at help hearing on vaccines
Anne Schuchat is a U.S. medical doctor who served as the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Acting Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) until July 7, 2017. She became Acting Director of CDC and Acting Administrator of ATSDR on January 20, 2017. She is an Assistant Surgeon General holding the ranks of rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Having worked with the CDC on immunization, respiratory, and other infectious diseases since 1988, she served as the Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health at the CDC from February 2009 to June 2009. She has also held other posts in the CDC.
Contents
- Alexander questions dr anne schuchat of cdc at help hearing on vaccines
- Dr anne schuchat on the spread of mers
- Early life and education
- Career
- American Public Health Association
- Swarthmore College
- United States Public Health Service
- Personal life
- In popular culture
- References
Dr anne schuchat on the spread of mers
Early life and education
Schuchat grew up in a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., the fourth of five children. Her grandfather was a kosher butcher from West Virginia. Schuchat graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in 1980 and graduated with honors from Dartmouth Medical School in 1984.
Career
Schuchat served as resident and chief resident in internal medicine at New York University′s Manhattan V.A. Hospital before beginning her public health career at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in NCID.
During the 2001 anthrax attacks, Schuchat served on CDC's Anthrax Emergency Response Team, which was tasked with investigating the attacks.
As the Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program at the CDC from February 2009 to June 2009, Schuchat focused on ensuring strong science and programmatic approaches were effectively integrated into planning across the agency. She has emphasized prevention of infectious diseases in children. Her emphasis on perinatal group B streptococcal disease prevention has led to an 80 percent reduction in newborn infections and a 75 percent narrowing of racial disparities among sufferers of this infectious disease. She has been instrumental in pre- and post-licensure evaluations of conjugate vaccines for bacterial meningitis and pneumonia and in accelerating availability of these new vaccines in resource-poor countries through WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
American Public Health Association
Swarthmore College
United States Public Health Service
Personal life
Schuchat is married and has no children; she has three brothers and one sister. In May 2005, Schuchat received an honorary doctorate in science from Swarthmore College, from which she had been graduated in 1980.